Following the success of the 13-episode Season One, the Sci-Fi
Channel ordered a 20-episode second season on February 9, 2005.
The season premiered in the US on the Sci-Fi Channel on July 15,
2005, with the UK, Ireland, and Canadian premiere in January, 2006.
In the fall of 2005, airing of the second season halted, as it was
part of Sci-Fi Channel's standard airing schedule normally used for
its Stargate series, which was to split a 20-episode season into
two parts (a "winter season" and a "summer season") to avoid heavy
competition with major networks that follow a spring/fall schedule.
Universal Home Video took this break as an opportunity to package
the episodes aired thus far into a DVD set, calling it Season 2.0.
The final episode of the first half, "Pegasus", was originally 15
minutes too long for broadcast, but according to creator Ronald
Moore, the production team decided to cut the episode to time rather
than pad it out to fill 90 minutes, as this was deemed impractical.
The longer version of "Pegasus" appears on the Battlestar Galactica
Season 2.5 DVD set, which was released in the US on September 19, 2006.
Sky did not contribute financially to the second season, though UK
broadcasts credit the company at the end of every episode.

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